Word: yahia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks continued, Algerian police, using night-vision devices, identified the hijack leader as Abdul Abdullah Yahia, 25, alias "the Emir." A petty thief and a greengrocer from the tough Algiers neighborhood of Bab El Oued, Yahia was described as belonging to the G.I.A. and a man who had taken part in earlier "attacks of rare violence and savagery." The negotiators said Yahia spoke "approximate" French, seemed "intellectually limited" and ended every sentence with "Inch'Allah," or God willing...
Once they knew with whom they were dealing, the police tried to use family pressure to make Yahia back off. According to the French weekly Nouvel Observateur, they brought his mother to the airport and let her talk directly on the radio to the cockpit. "In the name of God, I implore you, my son, to let all the passengers go," she said. Yahia reportedly fired a few rounds in the direction of the control tower and replied, "Mother, we'll meet in paradise...
...attempts, with hilarious awkwardness, to court Elaine (Leslie Yahia), the dancer with the decidedly anti-romantic epithet of "Carnival Girl." In one scene, The Chairman, having had his lady love drugged and thrown into a box to be transported to his lair, asks sweetly, "Why so frosty...
Voices, written by Susan Griffin and directed by Jeanne Smoot, presents the lives of five contemporary women, each attempting to understand the course of her life. Maya (Leslie Yahia), Kate (Jeanne Smoot), Erin (Angela Delichatsios), Rosalinde (Emily Gardiner) and Grace (Erin Scott) have had very different lives: they are, respectively, a divorced mother writing her Ph.D. thesis, a retired actress, a patient in a mental hospital, a mother mourning the loss of her children to their adult lives and a new-age hippie...
...actresses deliver their characters passionately and believably. Occasionally, it seemed that one was watching the actress and not her character--in other words, that each woman was playing a thinly disguised version of herself. Jeanne Smoot and Erin Scott sometimes seemed stilted as they attempted to appear matronly. Leslie Yahia was too hyperactive to be convincing as an angry and burnt out single mother. All of the women were far more real when they were delivering comic lines than when trying to confront serious issues in their characters' lives...